It's called labor aristocracy, actually. The poor people who subsist on government subsidies while enjoying the lush benefits of imperialism is how the government keeps the poor in line. If they're chatting on their cell phones or watching their reality television, they aren't thinking, they aren't acting, and they aren't stopping the government from doing whatever it wants.
Do you think that if their income was dedicated to barely covering food and rent, they would not do what generations of American workers did: strike, riot, demand their fair share? Do you think that finance capital isn't willing to grant some tiny fragment of their income to keep that from happening?
The only fair share a person is entitled to is what that person earns through hard work and by making intelligent decisions which by right inheritance his or her children and their children's children should reap the benefit there of. No more and no less.
It should not be taken over by the state.